The idea of the South West Slopes Cricket League ('SWSCL') has been one floated for the last twenty (20) years, however on behalf of the Young, Cootamundra and Temora District Cricket Associations we are all pleased to announce the launch this upcoming 2015/2016 season of the South West Slopes Cricket League.
The South West Slopes Cricket League will feature an expected fourteen teams from the combined Young, Cootamundra, and Temora regions taking part in a joint cricket competition over this upcoming summer playing both Forty (40) Over One Day Matches, and a series of Twenty20 Matches, with both team and town pride on the line.
With the competition split into two divisions - the Premier League and Division One - ensuring the best players and teams across the region have a tough, yet fair competition to participate in, while teams with children and players who are winding down their career also have a competition of their own that is fun, social yet competitive.
Interest in this competition continues to grow as we edge closer and closer to the 2015/2016 season starting, with newspapers across the three regions gearing up to provide extensive coverage, radio stations getting themselves primed for live score updates, and television news networks such as Prime7 News already running stories during their nightly bulletins on the newly launched competition.
The concept of our combined competition is highly respected with Cricket New South Wales, ACT Cricket and Cricket Australia all providing its support to the South West Slopes Cricket League, with all keen and eager to keep an eye on how the season plays out with the intention of adopting the set up as a 'blue print' for other associations to help them rebuild the competition.
While for the better part of two decades many previous administrations from various cricket associations in and around the region have attempted to get a competition along the lines of the South West Slopes Cricket League it was the newly elected Young & Districts Cricket Association President Brendon Meynell in 2015 that made it one of his top priorities to help resurrect cricket, following years of dwindling numbers, across the South West Slopes region.
Numerous meetings to outline the proposed competition were held throughout the 'off season' during the early part of the 2015 year until all associations were satisfied with the concept and agreed to take part in the 2015/2016 South West Slopes Cricket League with the aim of building amongst the original sides and associations in years to come to ensure constant growth, and renewed competition throughout the entire South West Slopes region.